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The Right to Refuse Treatment: Four Case Studies of Legal Mobilization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Neal Milner
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Abstract

This is a comparative study of legal mobilization that shows how various patterns of legal representation and layperson participation affect the scope and pace of mobilization. These patterns do not emerge from whole cloth during a particular legal mobilization but rather develop according to preexisting trends of representation and participation.

The author first discusses this analytic framework and then presents four case studies. Ultimately he presents a comparative analysis of these cases to generalize about the relationship between the patterns and the scope and pace of mobilization. He argues that patterns of legal representation and layperson participation are powerful determinants of the style and outcome of legal mobilization.

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Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , 1987 , pp. 447 - 485
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 The Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. SES-8026590. Eloise Buker and James Primm contributed ably to the study as field researchers. An earlier version of this paper was given at the Law and Society Association meeting, Denver, June 2–5, 1983.

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